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The write side of lobbying

Don't just watch the registries — be the system of record.

Monitoring tells you what's filed. The Compliance Cockpit runs the other side: your own registrations and communications across the federal, Québec, Ontario, and B.C. registries, with every filing deadline computed from the governing statute, a one-click mark-filed and renew workflow, and a branded filing packet ready to export. The work GR teams do in spreadsheets and calendar reminders, with the citation attached.

Honest scope: Clarion is not an auto-filer. It computes the deadlines and assembles the evidence; you review every obligation and file on the official registry. Computed dates are guidance cited to the statute, not legal advice. Page, the Canadian incumbent, ships nothing on this side at all.

Deadline radar
  • Federal monthly communication reportOverdue

    Due Jun 15 · Lobbying Act ss. 5(3)/7(4) · 2 reportable comms

  • B.C. monthly returnDue soon

    Due Jul 15 · Lobbyists Transparency Act s. 4.1(1)

  • Québec mandate renewalUpcoming

    Due Sep 02 · period cannot exceed one year

Computed from the governing statute · most urgent first

One cockpit, four registries

Every Canadian lobbying registry you actually file in.

Most teams track federal in one tab, Québec in another, and Ontario and B.C. on a whiteboard. The cockpit is the single record across all four — each registration carries its jurisdiction, its lobbyist type, and the exact rule its deadlines are computed from. Add a registration once; the obligations follow it.

  • Federal — Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying, under the Lobbying Act.
  • Québec — Commissaire au lobbyisme, via Carrefour Lobby Québec.
  • Ontario — Office of the Integrity Commissioner, Lobbyists Registry.
  • British Columbia — Office of the Registrar of Lobbyists, Lobbyists Transparency Act.
Compliance Cockpit · registrationsAcross four registries
  • Clean-energy procurement reform

    Consultant

  • Transport électrification mandate

    In-house

  • Health-data interoperability

    In-house

  • Critical-minerals permitting

    Consultant

What the cockpit does

The filing work, done where the intelligence already lives.

You're already in Clarion to read the file. The cockpit is the write side of the same workspace — log the meeting, watch the deadline, mark it filed, export the packet. No second tool, no separate spreadsheet.

01System of record

Log every registration and communication once.

Capture each registration — jurisdiction, lobbyist type (consultant or in-house), client, start date — and log the communications under it: the date, the medium, who you met, the subject, the intended outcome. One workspace-scoped record, every change written to an append-only audit log.

Compliance Cockpit · registrationsAcross four registries
  • Clean-energy procurement reform

    Consultant

  • Transport électrification mandate

    In-house

  • Health-data interoperability

    In-house

  • Critical-minerals permitting

    Consultant

02Deadline radar

Every filing deadline, computed from the statute.

The radar reads your registrations and communications and computes each obligation — monthly communication reports (federal and B.C.), initial-registration windows, annual and semi-annual renewals, the federal five-month keep-alive — sorted most-urgent first, each tagged overdue, due-soon, or upcoming, and each carrying the exact rule and statute it was derived from.

Deadline radar
  • Federal monthly communication reportOverdue

    Due Jun 15 · Lobbying Act ss. 5(3)/7(4) · 2 reportable comms

  • B.C. monthly returnDue soon

    Due Jul 15 · Lobbyists Transparency Act s. 4.1(1)

  • Québec mandate renewalUpcoming

    Due Sep 02 · period cannot exceed one year

Computed from the governing statute · most urgent first

03Mark filed · renew

Close an obligation in one click.

When you've filed on the official registry, mark it filed or confirm the month reported and the obligation clears — the renewal clock resets, the radar recalculates. The federal monthly report only counts the communications that are actually reportable: oral, arranged in advance, with a designated public office holder. The DPOH call stays yours.

Obligation · close it

Federal monthly report

Open · due Jul 15
Mark filed
Filed Jul 11 · clock reset

Records YOUR filing — submits nothing to the registry.

04Branded filing export

Export a filing-ready packet, in your firm's colours.

Generate a .docx of a registration and its communications — month-scoped or in full — branded with your workspace logo, accent, and footer, with the registrar and the lobbyist type named on the cover. It's the evidence packet to review and file, or to hand a client as proof of the disclosure. Bilingual: the document renders in English or French.

Filing export · .docxBranded with your workspace

Clean-energy procurement reform

Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying · Consultant lobbyist

  • Registration — Federal · started March 4
  • Communications (3) — office-holder, subject, outcome
  • Reviewed by you · filed on the official registry

Evidence packet — not a submission

How the radar computes a date

Not a reminder you set — a deadline the statute sets.

A calendar reminder is only as good as the person who typed it. The radar derives each date from the governing rule: the federal and B.C. monthly return is due the 15th of the month following the communication — never fifteen days after the meeting — and only federal and B.C. have a monthly report at all; Ontario and Québec disclose at the registration level. Every obligation states the rule it came from, so you can check it.

Oral, arranged meeting with a DPOH on June 8 → federal monthly report due July 15 (Lobbying Act ss. 5(3)/7(4)). Unsure if they're a DPOH? It's flagged to verify, never decided for you.

Why it matters

The write side is the part a monitoring tool can't touch.

Anyone can read a registry. Running your own filings — on deadline, across four jurisdictions, with the paper to prove it — is the work that carries real exposure. That's the side Clarion builds.

Exposure01

Never miss a filing window again.

Missed and late filings are the compliance risk that actually bites. The radar surfaces every window before it closes, across all four registries, so a deadline is something you clear — not something you discover.

Defensible02

Every deadline cites the rule it came from.

When a client or a partner asks why a date is what it is, the answer is on the obligation — the statute section, the registrar, the computation. Computed guidance you can stand behind, not a number in a spreadsheet.

One workspace03

Read the file and run the filings in one place.

The cockpit links a communication to the office-holder on Clarion's roster, so your private filing record and the public intelligence sit in the same workspace — the read side and the write side, finally together.

Run your filings where you already read the file.

Start free, add a registration, and the cockpit computes its first deadline on the spot — every obligation cited to the statute, the mark-filed workflow ready, the branded export a click away. No demo gate to see the radar.